Chapter 10: The Forgotten Racers
Vanellope, Taffyta, Rancis, Jubileena, Swizzle, Minty, Adorabeezle, Candi, Sticky, Cinndon, and Toxika reached the mainland, and the boat stopped at Sugarcube Cove. They got out of the boat, and as they did, Candlehead, Gloyd, Snowanna, Crumbelina, Citrusella, Torvald, Nougetsia, Candace, and the new characters showed up. While on the boat, Vanellope had contacted everyone that had stayed behind and told them that she, Taffyta, Rancis, Jubileena, Swizzle, Minty, Adorabeezle, Candi, Sticky, Cinndon, and Toxika were returning from the island, which she said was named Licorice Island.
"Guys, your back!" Snowanna said upon her and the second group arriving at Sugarcube Cove.
Swizzle nodded.
"Yes, we're back. And you won't believe what we went through over there." Swizzle said.
Vanellope nodded.
"Yeah, but we'll tell you that later. Right now, we need to prepare for the Random Roster Race. But that won't be for another three hours, so you can all do what you want while you wait." Vanellope said.
The Sugar Rush racers, Cinndon, Candace, and Toxika nodded, and they left Sugarcube Cove and went to Sugar Town. Once they arrived, Candlehead and Kandle left to go to Kandle's house, which was shaped like a birthday cake. Adorabeezle and Nougetsia left to go back to their house. Toxika said goodbye to everyone and left for Activist's Quest. And Snowanna, Candi, Sticky, Nougetsia, Cinndon, and Candace left to hang out with Keisha and Charlie at a part of Sugar Rush that was known as the Jelly Fruit Springs. And the remaining new characters, except Damon, left to hang out at Taffyel's house, which was a bungalow that was a few houses down from Taffyta's house.
Vanellope, Taffyta, Rancis, Jubileena, Gloyd, Swizzle, Minty, Citrusella, Torvald, and Damon were the only ones left in Sugar Town that hadn't wandered off.
"So, what should we do now?" Gloyd asked.
Vanellope started to think about it. But before she could continue with her thoughts, she heard a sound over by Sugar Rush Square, which was across the street from where she and the others were standing.
Blink!
Vanellope turned around and looked over at Sugar Rush Square. Her eyes widened because five characters that she didn't recognize stood in the middle of Sugar Rush Square, brushing their jackets and yawning. They had popped up in a similar manner to her glitching.
The first character was a girl that had pale skin, long blonde hair, and green eyes, and she wore a green dress and black shoes.
The second character was a girl that had pale skin, white hair, and green eyes, and she wore a red and white dress and white shoes.
The third character was a boy that had pale skin, blue hair, and blue eyes, and he wore a blue jacket, a white shirt, black jeans, and white shoes.
The fourth character was a boy that had medium colored skin, brown hair, and green eyes, and he wore brown clothing and black shoes.
And the fifth character was a girl that had pale skin, black hair, and black eyes, and she wore a red dress and black shoes.
"Sweet mother of monkey milk! Guys, come and see this!" Vanellope cried.
Damon and Citrusella were the first to approach Vanellope's side, followed by Jubileena, Gloyd, Taffyta, Minty, Rancis, Torvald, and Swizzle.
"What's going on?" Jubileena asked.
"Yeah, who are they? And what are they doing here?" Damon asked.
Taffyta, Rancis, Jubileena, Gloyd, Swizzle, Minty, Citrusella, Torvald, and Damon were confused, but Vanellope was able to put the pieces together.
"The Code Room!" Vanellope shrieked.
Vanellope bolted out of the room and started glitching towards the castle. Taffyta, Rancis, Jubileena, Gloyd, Swizzle, Minty, Citrusella, Torvald, and Damon started after her, but Gloyd accidentally bumped the blonde haired girl.
"Watch where your going!" the girl snarled.
The girl shoved Gloyd into Minty.
"Whoa, hang on a minute. We don't want any trouble." Citrusella said nervously.
"Mind your own business, blue girl!" the white haired girl snapped.
The white haired girl slapped Citrusella's face. Jubileena glared at the girl and generated a cherry bomb.
"Leave my sister alone!" Jubileena shouted.
Jubileena threw the cherry bomb at the white haired girl. The cherry bomb didn't hit her, but the explosion that resulted was close enough to throw her down to the ground. The black haired girl punched Jubileena in the back, knocking the wind out of her and throwing her to the ground. Jubileena tried to get up, but the white haired girl held her arm out and Jubileena was sent flying back.
"Guys, I think we're in trouble." Gloyd said, a hint of fear in his voice.
Torvald frowned and created five butter clones.
"Don't be scared, Gloyd. We're part of a super hero team, remember?" Torvald asked.
Torvald then set the butter clones against the characters that had showed up.
Creamy was sitting in a chair in the living room of her and Rancis's house. Ever since Vanellope, Taffyta, Rancis, Jubileena, Swizzle, Minty, Adorabeezle, Candi, Sticky, Cinndon, and Toxika went to Licorice Island, she had been worried that Rancis was going to get himself into trouble and hurt himself. However, she realized that he could protect himself, so she wasn't that worried.
Blink!
Creamy jumped out of her chair in shock at the sudden noise.
"Hey, is anyone in there?" a voice asked.
Creamy heard someone knocking on the door. She walked over to the door and opened it. As soon as she did, she saw a girl standing outside of the door. The girl had pale skin, long white hair that had a blue hairclip, and blue eyes, and she wore a blue necklace around her neck, a white dress, and white flats.
"Hello, my name is Crepe Suezette." the girl introduced in a french accent. She then asked "What's your name?".
Creamy was confused. She had never seen Crepe before, but yet, she suddenly showed up on her and Rancis's doorstep. She then guessed that she was part of the upgrade and smiled.
"My name is Creamy Buttercap." Creamy replied. She then asked "Would you like to come in?".
Crepe smiled and nodded.
"Yes, thank you." Crepe replied. She then frowned and asked "Hey, is it okay if I brought in someone else?".
Creamy nodded.
"Yeah, sure." Creamy replied.
Crepe smiled and whistled. Instantly, another girl showed up. She had light skin, green hair, and brown eyes, and she wore a blue dress and red shoes.
"Hello, my name is Ashley Airhead." the girl introduced.
Creamy smiled and shook her head.
"Creamy Buttercap." Creamy introduced.
Creamy then stood to the side, and Crepe and Ashley walked in. Once they were inside, Creamy stepped inside and closed the door.
Candlehead and Kandle were at Kandle's house. The two of them had decided to play video games, and they had chosen to play a round of Mario Kart Wii. Candlehead had picked Peach, while Kandle had picked Koopa Troopa. Kandle had won, which was surprising since he hadn't raced yet because the upgrade had only happened that morning. The two of them paused their game and decided to talk.
"So, what do you think the others are doing right now?" Kandle asked.
Candlehead shrugged.
"I don't know." Candlehead replied.
Blink!
Candlehead looked out her window and saw two characters appear. The first character was a girl that had pale skin, freckles, brown hair, and brown eyes, and she wore a pink dress and white shoes. The second character was a girl that had fair skin, brown hair that had white highlights, and brown eyes, and she wore brown shorts, a white shirt, and brown boots. Candlehead made her way outside, with Kandle accompanying her, and the two of them walked up to the two new characters.
"Hey, who are you?" Candlehead asked.
The two girls turned to her.
"My name is Fatima Frosting." the first girl replied.
"And my name is Katie Kit Kat." the second girl introduced.
Fatima looked at Candlehead and Kandle with a confused expression.
"Who are you two?" Fatima asked.
"My name is Kandle. I was just created during an upgrade earlier today." Kandle replied.
"And I'm Candlehead, one of the top racers of this game." Candlehead introduced.
Fatima and Katie nodded.
"Alright. Well, since you two have been around longer, could you show us around?" Katie asked.
Candlehead and Kandle nodded.
"Sure. " Kandle replied.
Candlehead and Kandle started leading Fatima and Katie away, so they could show the two new girls around Sugar Rush.
Back in Sugar Rush Square, Taffyta, Rancis, Jubileena, Gloyd, Swizzle, Minty, Citrusella, Torvald, and Damon were fighting the five new characters that had showed up. However, the five new characters had powers of their own, and Taffyta, Rancis, Jubileena, Gloyd, Swizzle, Minty, Citrusella, Torvald, and Damon were surprisingly no match for them.
Taffyta was thrown to the ground by the blonde haired girl, who had food manipulation and box manipulation powers. She generated food that was contained within boxes and used them to create a battle suit for herself in order to attack Taffyta.
The black haired girl had super strength and used it to pummel Minty. Surprisingly, the girl was even stronger then Minty. Gloyd tried to help Minty by throwing a couple of pumpkin bombs at the girl, but she dodged the pumpkin bombs and punched Gloyd, sending him flying to the ground.
Rancis spat out sprays of toxic sugar waste at the white haired girl, who had psychic powers like Swizzle. However, the girl just teleported in order to avoid the toxic sugar waste sprays that he spat out. Eventually, the girl teleported over to Rancis and used her telekinesis to throw him up into the air. She then flew up to Rancis and shot red energy blasts at him, sending him crashing to the ground.
Jubileena threw cherry bombs at the blue haired boy, who had electrical abilities. However, the boy just shot red colored electric bolts that destroyed the cherry bombs in thin air, and then he shot an electrical blast at Jubileena. She wasn't able to get out of the way in time, and she got electrocuted and blown back onto the ground. Damon and Citrusella noticed what had happened and ran over to the boy. Citrusella shot an electrical bolt at the boy, but he just absorbed it. He then shot an electrical blast at Citrusella, who got electrocuted and blown back, even though she had electrical abilities and absorbed electric based attacks. Damon set Citrusella next to Jubileena, and then he faced the boy. The boy shot an electrical blast at Damon, but Damon's right arm glowed blue and he shot a blast of blue lightning that started to react against the boy's electrical blast. The two of them continued shooting their electrical blasts at each other, and Damon started to win. However, the other boy put more effort into his attack, and his electrical blast started overcoming Damon's. Damon lost his footing in the process and he was electrocuted before being thrown over to Jubileena and Citrusella.
Torvald sent six butter clones against the brown haired boy, who had magical abilities. The butter clones charged at the boy, but the boy shot a green magic blast at the butter clones, destroying them. He then shot a magic blast at Torvald, who slammed into a nearby wall. The boy then waved his hand at the wall and turned it into a tar like substance that wrapped around Torvald, pinning her to the wall. Torvald let out a scream and tried to break free. Swizzle noticed what happened to Torvald and he flew at the boy. However, the boy just teleported out of the way and then fired a magic blast at Swizzle. Swizzle was thrown onto the ground and the boy started approaching him menacingly. Swizzle realized what was happening and he tried to crawl away backwards.
"N-No, get away from me! Get away! Get AWAAAAAY!" Swizzle screamed.
Swizzle's scream turned into an extremely powerful and highly destructive sonic scream that was made out of green energy, powerful enough to rival a scream that Snowanna could make. The attack directly hit the boy, who tried to fight the force that was trying to push him back, but the strong attack became too powerful and it threw him on the ground, sliding him away. Once the attack stopped, Swizzle began panting hard and held his chest while leaning forward.
The other four characters noticed what had happened and started fighting Swizzle as well, who managed to catch his breath and get into a battle position. The blonde haired girl formed a glowing box over her head and shot it at Swizzle, but Swizzle turned intangible, which he was able to do thanks to the upgrade to his psychic abilities that also gave him his phasing abilities, and the glowing box went right through him. Swizzle then shot energy rays at the girl, who got thrown onto the ground. The blue haired boy fired electric bolts at Swizzle, but Swizzle flew up into the air in order to avoid the electric bolts, and then he flew back down, landed a punch to the boy, and then fired two blasts of energy that knocked the boy away. The black haired girl wrapped her arms around Swizzle and started squeezing hard, but Swizzle quickly turned intangible, flew out of the girl's reach, and then blasted her away with an energy ray. Finally, the white haired girl faced Swizzle. She shot a red energy ray at Swizzle, but he shot a green energy ray that destroyed her energy ray. He then used his telekinesis to lift her into the air before slamming her onto the ground and blasting her with an energy blast.
The five characters got up from where they had landed and realized that they couldn't win a fight against Swizzle, so they retreated. Once they were gone, Swizzle made his way over to Taffyta, Rancis, Jubileena, Gloyd, Minty, Citrusella, Torvald, and Damon.
"Is everyone alright?" Swizzle asked.
Torvald nodded.
"Yeah, we're fine." Torvald replied.
Gloyd became confused.
"But since when did you have that shouting power?" Gloyd asked.
Swizzle shrugged.
"I don't know. I guess it's a new ability. I'll call it the Sugar Wail." Swizzle replied. He then turned to Damon and asked "But when did you get electrical abilities? You've never had them before.".
"The restoration of my code somewhat altered my code a little and I got my powers. It's called a mod, but I call it a glitch." Damon replied.
Taffyta, Rancis, Jubileena, Gloyd, Swizzle, Minty, Citrusella, and Torvald nodded in understanding.
Meanwhile, Vanellope finally reached the castle. She ran into the throne room and saw Wynchel and Duncan, handcuffed together and groaning in pain.
"Sweet mother of monkey milk." Vanellope said to herself in shock.
However, she heard another groaning sound from behind the curtain. Passing the donut cops, she saw Sour Bill lying unconscious on the floor near the Code Room.
"Sour Bill, what happened?" Vanellope asked, picking up his limp body.
"Licortwist." Sour Bill replied.
Sour Bill then became unconscious again. Vanellope set his body on the floor and ran to the door of the Code Room, and her jaw dropped as she saw Licortwist poking and prodding the 'Forgotten racers' code box.
"Licortwist, what are you doing?" Vanellope asked angrily.
Vanellope dived into the Code Room and started hovering in the air. She flew over to Licortwist and tried to kick him, but Licortwist shot a licorice stream at Vanellope that knocked her back. Vanellope lost control of where she was going and started floating away, but she managed to hover in the air again. She glared at Licortwist, who finished with the Forgotten racers code box and turned to face her.
"Let's finish this!" Vanellope said.
Vanelope then flew at Licortwist, shooting a blast of pixels at him while she did so.